Margaret Russell, Visiting Professor

Expertise:  Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contemporary Legal History

Courses taught:  Constitutional Law, Contemporary Legal Theory Seminar, Critical Race Theory, Pleading and Civil Procedure, Public Interest and Social Justice Practice

Professor Russell had a one-year clerkship with U.S. District Judge James E. Doyle in Wisconsin then returned to California for a fellowship with Public Advocates Inc., a public interest law firm in San Francisco.  In 1986, she returned to Stanford Law School as the director of public interest programs and also served as the acting assistant dean of student affairs.  She joined the Santa Clara law faculty after receiving a graduate degree from Stanford Law School in 1990.

Professor Russell is a founding member and past chair of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Community Law Project, a non-profit legal services organization in East Palo Alto.

In 1991 Professor Russell traveled to South Africa with a delegation of legal scholars to consult with the African National Congress on constitution-drafting; in 1990 she traveled to Nicaragua as an election monitor.  In 1992 she was co-director of the Santa Clara summer program in Tokyo.  She has been honored by the Asian Pacific Law Students Association and the Black Law Students Association for her contributions to student life at Santa Clara.